The contentious 2022 midterm elections are not quite finished next week’s runoff in the race for the Georgia Senate seat pits Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock against Republican Herschel Walker but following a grueling campaign season, the American people went out and cast.
On the latest episode of Syracuse Speaks, WAER's Tarryn Mento and Katie Zilcosky dive into everything voters in Onondaga County need to know ahead of Election Day on Nov. 8. Here are nine things we learned.
Chris Faricy, a professor at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, shares his observations on the outcomes of the August 23 primaries and discusses what may come next for NY-22.
Direct payments to families should replace backdoor tax breaks, which obscure the failures of capitalism to sustain social reproduction.
President Joe Biden’s expansive American Families Plan, announced last month and now being debated in Congress, proposes almost $2 trillion in spending on a wide range of social services, from paid family and medical leave, subsidized child care, and universal prekindergarten to free community college and health insurance subsidies. Amidst these ambitious initiatives, it is easy to miss adjustments to the federal tax code. But one quieter proposal extending the already increased child tax credit that came into law in March through the American Rescue Plan Act has dramatic implications for reducing child poverty and supporting working families, and more broadly for the way we think about the provision of social welfare in the United States.